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Portrait of the Kings: The Davidic Prototype in Deuteronomistic Poetics
Oct 15, 2015 By Library of the Jewish Theological Seminary | Public Event audio
A discussion with author Dr. Alison L. Joseph, adjunct assistant professor of Bible at JTS and visiting assistant professor at Towson University.
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All This Has Come Upon Us
May 12, 2015 By Library of the Jewish Theological Seminary | Public Event audio
An evening with Mark Podwal, artist, physician, author, and former Op-Ed artist of the New York Times
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Pepper, Silk & Ivory: Amazing Stories about Jews and the Far East
May 7, 2015 By Library of the Jewish Theological Seminary | Public Event audio
A discussion with authors Rabbi Marvin Tokayer and Dr. Ellen Rodman.
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God, Faith & Identity From the Ashes
Apr 16, 2015 By Library of the Jewish Theological Seminary | Public Event audio
How have the children and grandchildren of Holocaust survivors shaped their identity and developed their attitudes toward God, faith, Judaism, the Jewish people, and the world?
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A Dialogue of Life: Toward the Encounter of Jews and Christians
Mar 26, 2015 By Library of the Jewish Theological Seminary | Public Event audio
This event was cosponsored by The Library and the Milstein Center for Interreligious Dialogue of The Jewish Theological Seminary.
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Leadership in the Bible: A Practical Guide for Today
Feb 19, 2015 By Library of the Jewish Theological Seminary | Public Event audio
How would Abraham, Joseph, and Moses respond to the 40 most difficult situations you encounter in daily life?
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The Bus on Jaffa Road: The Story of Middle East Terrorism and the Search for Justice
Nov 19, 2014 By Library of the Jewish Theological Seminary | Public Event audio
The Bus on Jaffa Road explores the 1996 incident that took the lives of JTS student Matthew Eisenfeld (z”l) and his fiancée, Sara Duker (z”l), and the couple’s legacy.
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Catalog of Judeo-Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the Jewish Theological Seminary
Oct 23, 2014 By Library of the Jewish Theological Seminary | Public Event audio
The JTS Library holds the largest Judeo-Persian manuscript collection in the West, and the third largest in the world. This repository is crucial in understanding the intellectual legacy of the ancient Iranian Jewish community, whose extant works rest in only a few large but neglected collections.
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Dreamland of Humanists: Warburg, Cassirer, Panofsky, and the Hamburg School
Feb 10, 2014 By Library of the Jewish Theological Seminary | Public Event audio
The recent discovery of a new trove of Nazi-looted art in Germany has awakened us to the world of culture and ideas that was lost when Hitler came to power. Dreamland of Humanists: Warburg, Cassirer, Panofsky, and the Hamburg School tells the forgotten story of Hamburg’s emergence as a center of that early 20th-century intellectual world.
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Memory and Covenant
Feb 3, 2014 By Library of the Jewish Theological Seminary | Public Event audio
Memory and Covenant: The Role of Israel’s and God’s Memory in Sustaining the Deuteronomic and Priestly Covenants combines a close reading of texts in the Deuteronomic, Priestly, and Holiness traditions with analysis of ritual and scrutiny of the different terminology regarding memory that is used in each tradition.
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Gospel of Freedom
Jan 29, 2014 By Library of the Jewish Theological Seminary | Public Event audio
Dr. Jonathan Rieder delves deeper than anyone before into Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “Letter from Birmingham Jail,” illuminating both its timeless message and crucial position in the history of civil rights.
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A Guide for the Perplexed: A Novel
Nov 11, 2013 By Library of the Jewish Theological Seminary | Public Event audio
Novelist Dara Horn, the winner of two National Jewish Book Awards, on her new book, A Guide For The Perplexed: A Novel.
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Hatemail: Anti-Semitism on Picture Postcards A Discussion with Author Salo Aizenberg
Nov 7, 2013 By Library of the Jewish Theological Seminary | Public Event audio
Salo Aizenberg, one of the leading collectors of Judaic picture postcards, is also the author of Postcards from the Holy Land: A Pictorial History of the Ottoman Era, 1880-1918. He is a managing director of the RLJ Credit Opportunity Fund, and coordinates its business development activities. He earned his BS in Management Information Systems at the State University of New York at Binghamton and his MBA at Columbia Business School.
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A Jew’s Best Friend? The Image of the Dog Throughout Jewish History
Oct 7, 2013 By Library of the Jewish Theological Seminary | Public Event audio
Philip I. Ackerman-Liebrman, assistant professor of Jewish Studies and Law, as well as affiliated assistant professor of Islamic Studies and History, at Vanderbilt University, delivered a JTS Library Book talk on October 7th, on his new book, A Jew’s Best Friend? The Image of the Dog throughout Jewish History.
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Rav Hisda’s Daughter
May 14, 2013 By Library of the Jewish Theological Seminary | Public Event audio
Maggie Anton, the award-winning author of the historical fiction series Rashi’s Daughters and Rav Hisda’s Daughter, a Talmud scholar with expertise in Jewish women’s history, and an esteemed lecturer, gave this Library Book Talk at JTS on Monday, April 29, 2013.
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The Radical American Judaism of Mordecai M. Kaplan
Apr 10, 2013 By Library of the Jewish Theological Seminary | Public Event audio
The philosophy of Mordecai M. Kaplan, longtime professor at JTS (1910 – 1963), dean of its Teachers Institute (1909 – 1946), and founder of the Reconstructionist Movement, is presented in its entirety for the first time in The Radical American Judaism of Mordecai M. Kaplan.
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Josephus and the Theologies of Ancient Judaism
Mar 25, 2013 By Library of the Jewish Theological Seminary | Public Event audio
A Discussion with Dr. Jonathan Klawans, Author, JTS, March 19, 2013, 7:30 PM
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Through the Door of Life: A Jewish Journey Between Genders
Mar 5, 2013 By Joy Ladin | Public Event audio
Dr. Joy Ladin, David and Ruth Gottesman Professor of English, Stern College for Women – Yeshiva University, discusses her work Through the Door of Life: A Jewish Journey Between Genders.
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Development, Learning, and Community
Dec 4, 2012 By Jeffrey Kress | Public Event audio
Dr. Jeffrey S. Kress, associate professor and chair of Jewish Education and academic director of the Experiential Learning Initiative at JTS, talks about Development, Learning, and Community: Educating for Identity in Pluralistic Jewish High Schools. Dr. Kress’s recent book uses data drawn from a study of pluralistic Jewish high schools to illustrate the complex and often challenging interplay between the cognitive and social elements of education.
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A Short History of Jewish Ethics
Nov 7, 2012 By Alan Mittleman | Public Event audio
In this Library Book Talk Professor Alan L. Mittleman discusses his book, A Short History of Jewish Ethics: Conduct and Character in the Context of Covenant.
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